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- sound
- noise
- note (of musical scale)
- tone
- news
- syllable
- reading (phonetic value of a character)
Trad. 讀音
- pronunciation
- literary (rather than colloquial) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- (music) note
- phonetic component of a Chinese character
- phonetic symbol
- phonogram
- loudspeaker box
- speaker (audio equipment)
- resonating chamber of a musical instrument
- sound box
Trad. 音譯
- transliteration (rendering phonetic value, e.g. of English words in Chinese characters)
- characters giving phonetic value of Chinese word or name (when the correct characters may be unknown)
- transcription (linguistics)
- to transcribe phonetic symbols
Trad. 音讀
- reading or phonetic value of a character
- (Japanese linguistics) on-reading, a pronunciation of a kanji derived from its pronunciation in a Sinitic language at the time it was imported from China (Note: An on-reading of a character is distinguished from its kun-reading(s) 訓讀|训读[xun4 du2]. For example, 山 has an on-reading "san" and a kun-reading "yama".)
Trad. 音韻
- music
- rhyme and rhythm
- initial, 音[yin1], and final and tone, 韻|韵[yun4], of a Chinese character
- phoneme
Trad. 音響
- sound; acoustics; audio
- hi-fi system; stereo sound system (abbr. for 組合音響|组合音响[zu3 he2 yin1 xiang3])
- to receive a radio signal
- to make an audio recording
- (of an auditorium etc) to have good acoustics
- (vocal training, linguistics) ending (of a word or syllable)
- ancient classification system for musical instruments, based on the material of which the instrument is made (metal 金, stone 石, clay 土, leather 革, silk 絲|丝, wood 木, gourd 匏, bamboo 竹)
- the eight kinds of sound produced by instruments in these categories
- music
- Douyin, Chinese app for creating and sharing short videos, released in its international version as TikTok
Trad. 擬音
- to make a sound effect
- sound effect
- (historical linguistics) to reconstruct the sound system of an archaic language
- ancient (esp. pre-Qin) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- classical speech sounds
Trad. 懶音
- (linguistics) phonological reduction; lazy pronunciation; allegro speech
- to indicate the pronunciation of Chinese characters using Pinyin or Bopomofo etc
- phonetic notation
- (specifically) Bopomofo (abbr. for 注音符號|注音符号[zhu4 yin1 fu2 hao4])
Trad. 語音
- speech sounds
- pronunciation
- colloquial (rather than literary) pronunciation of a Chinese character
- phonetic
- audio
- voice
- (Internet) to voice chat
- voice message
- voicing (adjustment of timbre, loudness etc of organ or other musical instrument)
- five notes of pentatonic scale, roughly do, re, mi, sol, la
- five classes of initial consonants of Chinese phonetics, namely: 喉音[hou2 yin1], 牙音[ya2 yin1], 舌音[she2 yin1], 齒音|齿音[chi3 yin1], 唇音[chun2 yin1]
Trad. 觀音
- Guanyin, the Bodhisattva of Compassion or Goddess of Mercy (Sanskrit Avalokiteśvara)
- the final of a Korean syllable (consonant or consonant cluster at the end of the syllable)
Trad. 翹舌音
- retroflex sound (e.g. in Mandarin zh, ch, sh, r)
Trad. 舒適音
- comfortable voice (well within one's range of pitch)
Trad. 顎齦音
- prepalatal or palatal sound (linguistics)
- palato-alveolar consonant (linguistics)
Trad. 標音法
- phonetic transcription
- system of representing spoken sounds
Trad. 變化音
- (music) accidental (a note foreign to the key signature)
Trad. 音集協
- China Audio-Video Copyright Association (CAVCA)
- Chinese character that is pronounced the same (as another character)
Trad. 音韻學
- Chinese phonetics (concerned also with rhyme in poetry)
Trad. 齒齦音
- alveolar, apical, or supradental sound (linguistics)
Trad. 兒化音
- (Chinese phonetics) erhua (the sound of the r-coloring of a syllable final)
Trad. 後鼻音
- velar nasal
- consonant ng or ŋ produced in the nose with the back of the tongue against the soft palate